Editors Note: Before we answer the above question, a brief message noting the passing of Zizi Jeanmaire, the Paris-born chanteuse/dancer extraordinaire who logged a six-decade career entertaining audiences worldwide from the Paris Opera to Broadway to a smattering of Hollywood films in the Fifties (eg. she danced with Bing Crosby in 1956’s Anything Goes; her […]
One of our readers, Page, commented about Sal Mineo: Sal Mineo was a talented, rather understated actor. There’s a modern-day feel to him, and you can see the influence in today’s actors from the likes of this older generation, and he is no exception. Contrast was that Mineo was so young at that time (nominated for […]
How much did you know about the brothers and the studio? There they are, above. The brothers Warner — Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack (who is the fellow with the mustache in the upper right). Jack was he youngest of the lot, the one not born in Poland but in London, Ontario Canada where his […]
One of the major majors of Hollywood’s Golden Era. In fact, it remains — after many corporate transformations — one of Hollywood’s dominant studios. The company has a rich, storied and complicated history. It was founded by its four brothers, descendants of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who began as rudimentary movie exhibitionists showing films in such rustic locales […]
We don’t like to overlook stars from The Golden Era. Especially ones who excelled playing in musicals AND hard-nosed noirs. That beefcake dude pictured at the top is John Payne, a versatile, 6-foot-2 inch semi -leading man (almost there but not quite) who racked up some 75 movie and tv credits over two decades. He […]
A little known masterpiece. And the last straw for Alice Faye (right). But what a boost for Linda Darnell (left). That’s because Darnell got her big break playing a seductive hash slinger in an off-the-highway Northern California cafe, who rattles the libido of any man she meets including Dana Andrews as an impoverished grifter out […]
Unique character actors were famous in Hollywood’s Golden era. No one was more “different” than Edna Mae Oliver. Some things you should know about Oliver, born Edna May Nutter in 1883 in Malden, Mass. — a real New England girl. — She was distantly related to the second president of the U.S., John Adams, and […]
Well, it turns out that at least some of you know a lot about Tyrone Power. We also suspect a lot more of you do but just aren’t saying. In any case, lets get to the answers to our TP Quiz: 1) Question: Power began his movie career at this prominent Hollywood studio, and was considered […]
He was right up there with Gary Cooper and Clark Gable in the ranks of Hollywood’s handsomest leading men. He was so popular that mothers named their sons after him, presumably in hopes that they would turn out as strikingly good looking. He was one of the few Hollywood stars who actually saw combat while serving […]
Editor’s Note: Before we get to our regularly scheduled programming, extension of a short farewell is more than in order to Ennio Morricone, the prolific Italian composer who scored literally hundreds of films, who died July 6 in Rome. He was 91. Enough said that Morricone was perhaps the most influential composer of movie music […]